Monday, November 12, 2012

الكويت تحتفل بيوم الدستور

Celebrating a golden jubilee
Kuwait style : Gulf state spends £10million to put on the biggest firework
display of all time

For
the paltry sum of just £10million Kuwait earned a place in the Guinness Book of
Records last night as it celebrated the golden jubilee anniversary of its
constitution in style by laying onthe
biggest fireworks display of all time.A dazzling array of colours illuminated the skies above
the country's capital of Kuwait City as a staggering 77,282 fireworks were
launched over the period of an hour.

A
representative of Guinness World Records announced the achievement on Kuwait
television at the end of the display which had been watched by tens of
thousands of Kuwaitis and expatriates on the Arabian Gulf Road by the sea.The visual presentation marked 50 years to the day since
the late emir Sheikh Abdullah al-Salem al-Sabah announced that Kuwait had
become the first Arab state in the Gulf to issue a constitution and have a
parliament.Before the
festivities Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah pledged the government's
continuing commitment to democracy and made a plea for national unity as the
wealthy Gulf state struggles with a political crisis